With the Life being played all over the radio last Fall and seeing a great DBGT music video my friend made to the song Campione I was in a real E-Type mood. Although his CD is nowhere to be found in music stores across Canada I stumbled across import CD of his from the early 90s called “Made in Sweden”. I immediately bought it, brought it home and put it through my CD player and while I couldn’t find Life or Campione (should I have been surprised? This CD came out about 5 years before either of those songs was made) I found a song I learned to love even more!

Since Sakura Wars was the first DVD I ever got I always wanted to make a video to it and since Maria was Russian herself I figured the two would go together nicely.

Since I basically ruined my last video with my old convert to DivX and then edit method (encoding DVDs at a different resolutions makes the video look very weird) I decided to consult with ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's guide for using Vobs in Premier and the result was a much clearer picture! I still got a lot to learn though as you can see from the beginning of the video where I tried zooming in the picture to hide some hard subs on the screen and basically ended up making the interlacing look really noticeable.

I debuted the video and Anime North and to my surprise I managed to walk away with both the Best Action Award and the Newbie Novice Award! I guess this means I’m not really Newbie anymore but I probably got a long way to go before I could be considered pro... and who knows, maybe ond day I'll even be invited to join the next DDR Project!

-Enjoy!

ps. Special Thanks to the guy who screamed out "OMG it's E-Type!" During the Anime North AMV contest. Up until that point I was worried that people would be all like "Who the hell made this stupid song!" So it was good to know there was a fellow fan in the audience.